9/8/2023 0 Comments Mark twain quotes![]() ![]() desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds-a silent mournful expanse.A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action.We never saw a human being on the whole route.There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. September 1897 (Quoted in The National Jewish Post & Observer, June 6, 1984) On Palestine All things are mortal but the Jews all other forces pass, but he remains. ![]() The Jew saw them all, survived them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmaties, of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert but aggressive mind. The Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Persians rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away the Greeks and Romans followed and made a vast noise, and they were gone other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, and have vanished. He could be vain of himself and be excused for it. He has made a marvelous fight in this world in all ages and has done it with his hands tied behind him. His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine and abstruse learning are also very out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. It suggests a nebulous puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. "If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one quarter of one percent of the human race. ![]() Quotes on Judaism & Israel: Quotes on Judaism & Israel: Table of Contents On the Jews ![]()
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